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10/28/2012

And if any of the beasts which are for you to eat dies, the handler of its carcass will be rendered impure until the evening. And the eater from its carcass is to wash his garments and be considered impure until evening. And the lifter of its carcass is to wash his garments and be considered impure until the evening. Also, every creature which creeps on the ground is detestable. It may not be eaten. All going on their belly and all walking on four, including all the multiple-legged of every creature which creeps on the ground may not be eaten, because they are detestable. Do not make your souls detestable by any creature which creeps. And do not become impure by them and unclean by them, for I am the Eternal your God. Sanctify yourselves and be holy, for I am holy. Therefore, do not make your souls impure with any infestation which creeps over the ground, for I am the Eternal who brings you up from the land of Egypt to be God to you. You are to be holy, because I am holy. This is the law of the beast, the fowl, every living being which infests the waters and every being which creeps on the ground, to separate between the impure and the pure and between the animal which is to be eaten and the animal which is not to be eaten. - Leviticus 11:39-47

10/21/2012

And for these you will be rendered impure. All who touch their carcass will be impure until the evening. And all who carry from their carcass will wash their garments and be impure until the evening. Any beast whose hoof is split but whose foot is not cleft and does not chew cud is impure to you. All who touch them will be rendered impure. And any that walk on their paws, of any of the animals which walk on four, are impure to you. All who touch their carcass will be rendered impure until the evening. Therefore, the bearer of their carcass is to wash his garments and be considered impure until the evening. They are impure to you. And this is the impure to you of the creature which creeps on the ground: the rat, the mouse, the turtle of its kind, the ferret, the chameleon, the lizard, the reptile and the mole. These are impure to you of all which creep. All who touch them when they are dead will be rendered impure until the evening. Also, everything on which they fall while they are dead will be rendered impure. Every wooden vessel, cloth, hide or sack, any utensil in which work is done, is to be brought into water and considered impure until the evening, and then be purified. And any clay vessel into which they fall, all that is in it will become impure, and you are to destroy it. All the food which may be eaten, on which water comes, will become impure. And all drink which is drunk in any vessel will become impure. Also, all on which their carcass falls will be rendered impure. An oven and a stove will be demolished. They are impure, and they will be considered impure by you. But a spring and a cistern collecting water will be pure. Yet, what touches their carcass will be impure. Also, if their carcass has fallen on any sowing seed which may be sown, it is pure. But if a seed has been watered and their carcass falls on it, it is impure to you. - Leviticus 11:24-38

10/14/2012

Speak to the children of Israel, saying: These are the animals which you may eat from among all the beasts which are on the earth. Any of the beasts with split-hoof and cleft-footed hoof, chewing cud, you may eat. But this you may not eat from among the cud-chewing and from among the split-hoofed: the camel, because it chews cud, but its hoof is not split. It is impure to you. The rabbit, because it chews cud but is not split-hoofed. It is impure to you. And the pig, because it is split-hoofed and cleft-foot hoofed, but it does not chew cud. It is impure to you. Do not eat any of their meat, and do not touch their carcass. They are impure to you. This you may eat from among all that is in the water: all that have fin and scales in the water, in the seas and in the streams, you may eat. But all that do not have fin and scales in the seas and in the streams, of any infestation of the water and of any living being which is in the water, are detestable to you. And they will be detestable to you. You may not eat from their meat, and you will detest their carcass. All that do not have fin and scales in the water are detestable to you. And you will detest these from the fowl. They may not be eaten. They are detestable: the eagle, the vulture, the osprey, the falcon, the buzzard of its kind, any raven of its kind, the ostrich, the kite, the sea gull, the hawk of its kind, the owlet, the cormorant, the owl, the barn-owl, the pelican, the crane, the stork, the heron of its kind, the hoopoe and the bat. Any winged insect which walks on four is detestable to you. But this you may eat from any winged insect which walks on four, which has legs above its feet to jump with on the ground. You may eat of these: the locust of its kind, the cicada of its kind, the cricket of its kind and the grasshopper of its kind. But every winged insect which has four feet is detestable to you. - Leviticus 11:2-23

10/07/2012

Do not drink wine or intoxicants, you and your sons with you, when you come to the tent of meeting, so that you not die, an everlasting decree for your generations - and to separate between the holy and the profane, between the impure and the pure, and to teach the children of Israel all the decrees which the Eternal has spoken to them through the hand of Moses - Leviticus 10:9-11

09/30/2012

Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, the anointing oil, the bull of the sin-offering, the two rams and the the basket of unleavened bread, and assemble the entire congregation by the entrance of the tent of meeting. - Leviticus 8:2-3

09/23/2012

Speak to the children of Israel, saying: The offerer of his peace-sacrifice to the Eternal is to bring his offering to the Eternal from his peace-sacrifice. His hands are to bring it, the Eternal's fire-offerings. He is to bring the fat with the breast, to wave its breast as a wave-offering before the Eternal. The priest is to incinerate the fat on the altar. The breast will belong to Aaron and to his sons. And you are to give the right shank, a raised-offering from your peace-sacrifices, to the priest. The offerer from among Aaron's sons of the blood of the peace-offering and the fat - the right shank belongs to him as his portion. For I have taken the breast of the wave-offering and the shank of the raised-offering from the children of Israel, from their peace-sacrifices, and I have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons as an everlasting decree from the children of Israel. This is the anointing of Aaron and the anointing of his sons from the fire-offerings of the Eternal, on the day he let them approach to be priests for the Eternal, which the Eternal commanded to give them from the children of Israel on the day of his anointing them, an everlasting decree for their generations. This is the law for the ascension-offering, for the meal-offering, for the sin-offering, for the guilt-offering, for the consecration-offering and for the peace-sacrifice which the Eternal commanded Moses on Mount Sinai on the day he commanded the children of Israel to offer their offerings to the Eternal in the Sinai Desert. - Leviticus 7:29-38

09/16/2012

Speak to the children of Israel, saying: Do not eat any fat of an ox, lamb or goat. Fat of a carcass or torn fat may be prepared for any work, but you must no eat it. Because anyone eating fat from a beast, from which a fire-offering to the Eternal is to be offered, for eating it, that soul will be cut off from its people. Also, do not eat any blood of a bird or of a beast in any of your settlements. Any soul who eats any blood, that soul will be cut off from its people. - Leviticus 7:23-27

09/09/2012

And this is the law of the peace-sacrifice which a person is to offer for the Eternal. If he offers it for thanksgiving, he is to offer unleavened doughs mixed in oil in addition to the thanksgiving-sacrifice, unleavened wafers anointed in oil, and doughs of sifted flour mixed in oil. He is to present his offering with loaves of leavened bread in addition to his thanksgiving-sacrifice of peace. He is to present one of every offering as a raised-offering to the Eternal. It will belong to him - to the priest who sprinkles the blood of the peace offering. And the meat of his thanksgiving-sacrifice of peace is to be eaten on the day of its offering. Do not leave from it until morning. And if the offering of a sacrifice is a vow-offering or a voluntary-offering, it will be eaten on the day that he offers his sacrifice. And its remainder may be eaten on the morrow as well. But on the third day, the remainder of the meat of the sacrifice is to be burnt in fire. Hence, if the meat of his peace-sacrifice is to be eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted. It will not be attributed to its offerer. It will be an abomination, and the soul who eats from it will bear his sin. Moreover, the meat which touches anything impure may not be eaten. It is to be burnt in fire. Yet, the meat - anyone pure may eat meat. But the soul who eats meat from the peace-sacrifice which is for the Eternal, while his impurity is upon him, that soul will be cut off from its people. Also, a soul who touches on anything impure, on the impurity of man, on an impure beast or on any impure abomination, and eats from the peace-sacrifice which is for the Eternal, that soul will be cut off from its people. - Leviticus 7:11-21

09/02/2012

And this is the law of the guilt-offering. It is the holiest of holies. They (the priests) are to slaughter the guilt-offering in the place where they slaughter the ascension-offering. And he (the presiding priest) is to sprinkle its blood around on the altar. And he is to offer all its fat, the rump and the fat which covers the innards. The two kidneys and the fat which is on them, on the flanks, and the gland over the liver above the kidneys, he is to remove. The priest is to incinerate them on the altar, a fire-offering for the Eternal. It is a guilt-offering. Every male of the priests may eat it. It is to be eaten in a holy place. It is the holiest of holies. Like the sin-offering, like the guilt-offering, there is one law for them. It belongs to the priest who atones with it. And the priest who offers a man's ascension-offering, the skin of the ascension-offering which he offers belongs to him, to the priest. And every meal-offering which is baked in an oven and any made in the stir-pot or on a frying-pan belongs to him, to the priest who offered it. But every meal-offering mixed in oil and dried belongs to all of Aaron's sons, each one alike. - Leviticus 7:1-10

08/26/2012

Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying: This is the law of the sin-offering. You are to slaughter the sin-offering in the place where you slaughter the ascension-offering, before the Eternal. It is the holiest of holies. The priest who makes it a sin-offering will eat it. It is to be eaten in a holy place, within the enclosure of the tent of meeting. All that touches its meat will become sanctified. And if its blood splashes on the garment, you are to wash what was splashed on in a holy place. And a clay utensil which was cooked in is to be broken. But if it was a copper utensil for cooking, then it is to be scoured and rinsed in water. Any male priest may eat it. It is the holiest of holies. But any sin-offering, the blood of which was brought to the tent of meeting to atone in the sanctuary, is not to be eaten. It must be burnt in fire. - Leviticus 6:18-23

08/19/2012

This is the offering that Aaron and his sons are to present on the day of their anointing for the Eternal: a tenth bushel of flour, a perpetual meal-offering, half of it in the morning and half of it in the evening. It is to be prepared on a frying-pan, in oil. You are to bring it sifted. You are to offer seared crumbs, a meal-offering, a pleasing aroma for the Eternal. And the priest succeeding him (Aaron), anointed from among his sons, is to prepare it, an everlasting decree for the Eternal, completely incinerated, as every priestly meal-offering - completely. It is not to be eaten. - Leviticus 6:13-16

08/12/2012

And this is the law of the meal-offering. Aaron's sons are to offer it before the Eternal, in front of the altar. He (the presiding priest) is to raise, by his handful, some of the flour of the meal-offering and some of its oil, and all the frankincense which is on the meal-offering, and incinerate it on the altar as a pleasing aroma, a memorial-portion for the Eternal. And Aaron and his sons are to eat the remainder of it. Unleavened bread is to be eaten in a holy place. They are to eat it within the enclosure of the tent of meeting. Do not bake leaven. I have given them their portion from my fire-offering. It is the holiest of holies, like the sin-offering and like the guilt-offering. Every male among Aaron's children is to eat it - an everlasting decree throughout your generations from the fire-offerings of the Eternal. All that touches them will be holy. - Leviticus 6:7-11

08/05/2012

Command Aaron and his sons, saying: This is the law of the ascension-offering. It is the ascension-offering on the hearth of the altar, the fire of the altar blazing in it all night, until morning. The priest is to wear his linen shirt and wear his linen pants on his flesh. He is to raise the ash which the fire has consumed, the ascension-offering on the altar, and put it beside the altar. He is to strip his garments and don other garments. He is to take the ash outside of the camp to a pure place. Yet, the fire on the altar, blazing in it, is not to be extinguished. The priest is to burn wood on it every morning. He is to arrange the ascension-offering on it and incinerate the fats of the peace-offerings on it. The perpetual fire, blazing on the altar, is not to be extinguished. - Leviticus 6:2-6

07/29/2012

If a person sins and commits a transgression against the Eternal and withholds from his companion a deposit or a loan, steals, extorts his colleague, finds what was lost and denies it, or swears falsely about any one thing that a man may sin thereby: because he has sinned and has been incriminated, he is to restore the goods which he has stolen, the extortion which he has extorted, the deposit which has been deposited with him, whatever was lost which he has found, or all upon which he has sworn faslely, and he is to pay him its principal and add an additional fifth. He is to give it to whom it belongs on the day of his incrimination. He is to bring his guilt-offering for the Eternal, an unblemished ram of the flock, at your value of a guilt-offering, to the priest. The priest will atone for him before the Eternal, and he will be forgiven for any one thing he may have done to be incriminated. - Leviticus 5:21-26

07/22/2012

If a person commits a transgression and sins in ignorance of the Eternal's sanctifications, he is to bring his guilt-offering for the Eternal, an unblemished ram from the flock, of your value of silver shekels, in holy shekels, for a guilt-offering. And he who has sinned concerning the sanctifications will pay and add its fifth in excess of it, and give it to the priest. And the priest will atone for him with the ram of the guilt-offering, and he will be forgiven. And if, when a soul sins and does any one of the Eternal's commandments which is forbidden, and he did not know it but is incriminated and bears his offense, he is to bring an unblemished ram from the flock, at your value for a guilt-offering, to the priest. The priest will atone for him, for his error which he has committed unknowingly, and he will be forgiven. It is a guilt-offering. He has been guilty - guilty to the Eternal. - Leviticus 5:15-19

06/27/2012

And if a person sins, if he hears the voice of an oath and is a witness, whether he saw or knew, yet he does not tell, and he bears his offense, or if a soul touches anything impure, whether the carcass of an impure animal, the carcass of an unclean beast, or the carcass of an unclean insect, and it was hidden from him, yet he is impure and incriminated, or if he touches a man's impurity, for any of his impurities for which he may become impure, and it was hidden from him, yet it becomes known and he is incriminated, or if a soul swears, uttering with his lips for evil or for good, for anything a man may utter in an oath, and it was hidden by him, yet it becomes known, and he is incriminated for one of these: it will be when he is incriminated for one of these, that he who has sinned is to confess and bring his guilt-offering for the Eternal, for his sin which he has committed, a female from the flock, a ewe-lamb or a kid goat, as a sin-offering. The priest is to atone for him, for his sin. But if he cannot afford a lamb, he who has sinned is to bring his guilt-offering, two doves or two young pigeons for the Eternal, one for a sin-offering and one for an ascension-offering. He is to bring them to the priest and offer that which is for the sin-offering first. He is to pinch its head off its neck, but no asunder. He is to splash of the blood of the sin-offering on the wall of the altar and squeeze out the remainder of the blood at the foundation of the altar. It is a sin-offering. Then, he is to prepare the second as an ascension-offering, as customary. The priest will atone for him, for his sin which he has committed, and he will be forgiven. But if he cannot afford two doves or two pigeons, he who has sinned is to bring his offering, a tenth of a bushel of flour, as a sin-offering. He may not place oil on it and may not put frankincense on it, because it is a sin-offering. He is to bring it to the priest. The priest it to take a handful from it, a full handful, its memorial-portion, and incinerate it on the altar with the fire-offerings of the Eternal. It is a sin-offering. The priest will atone for him, for his sin which he has committed, by one of these, and he will be forgiven. It will belong to the priest as a meal-offering. - Leviticus 5:1-13

06/10/2012

And if anybody among the common people sins in ignorance by going against one of the commandments concerning a thing which is forbidden and is incriminated: if his sin which he has committed is known to him, he is to bring his offering, an unblemished, female, kid goat, for his sin which he has committed. He is to lay his hand on the head of the sin-offering and slaughter the sin-offering in the place of the ascension-offering. The priest is to take from its blood on is finger and put it on the horns of the ascension altar. And he is to pour all its blood at the foundation of the altar. And he is to remove all its fat, as the fat from the peace-sacrifice was removed. The priest is to incinerate it on the altar as a pleasing aroma for the Eternal. The priest will atone for him, and he will be forgiven. And if he brings a lamb for his offering of a sin-offering, he is to bring an unblemished female. He is to lay his hand on the head of the sin-offering and slaughter it as a sin-offering, in the place where he would slaughter the ascension-offering. The priest is to take of the blood of the sin-offering on his finger and put on the horns of the ascension altar. And he is to pour all of its blood at the foundation of the altar. And he is to remove all of its fat, as the lamb's fat would be removed from the peace sacrifice. The priest is to incinerate them on the altar, like the fire-offerings for the Eternal. The priest will atone for him, for his sin which he has sinned, and he will be forgiven. - Leviticus 4:27-35

06/03/2012

A leader who sins in ignorance and goes against any one of the commandments of the Eternal his God concerning a thing which is forbidden and is incriminated: if his sin which he has committed is known to him, he is to bring his offering, an unblemished, male, kid goat. He is to put his hand on the head of the kid and slaughter it in the place where he would slaughter the ascension-offering, before the Eternal. It is a sin-offering. The priest is to take of the blood of the sin-offering on his finger and put it on the horns of the ascension altar. And he is to pour its blood at the foundation of the ascension altar and incinerate all its fat on the altar, just like the fat of the peace sacrifice. The priest will atone for his sin, and he will be forgiven. - Leviticus 4:22-26

05/20/2012

And if the entire congregation of Israel errs, and the thing is hidden from the eyes of the assembly, but they have gone against any one of the Eternal's commandments concerning a thing which has been forbidden and are incriminated: if the sin which they have committed is known, the assembly is to offer a young bull for a sin-offering and bring it before the tent of meeting. The elders of the assembly are to lay their hands on the head of the bull, before the Eternal, and slaughter the bull before the Eternal. The anointed priest is to bring some of the blood of the bull to the tent of meeting. The priest is to dip his finger in the blood and splash it seven times, before the Eternal, in front of the veil. And he is to put some blood onto the horns of the altar which is before the Eternal, in the tent of meeting. And he is to pour all the blood at the foundation of the ascension altar which is by the entrance of the tent of meeting. And he is to raise all of its fat from it and incinerate it on the altar. He is to prepare for the bull as he prepared for the bull of the sin-offering, likewise he will prepare it. The priest will atone for them, and they will be forgiven. He will take the bull outside the camp and burn it as he burned the first bull. It is the assembly's sin-offering. - Leviticus 4:13-21

05/13/2012

Speak to the children of Israel, saying: A person who sins in ignorance of any of the Eternal's commandments concerning things which are forbidden, yet commits one of them: if the anointed priest sins, incriminating the people, he is to offer an unblemished young bull to the Eternal as a sin-offering for his sin which he has committed. He is to bring the bull to the entrance of the tent of meeting, before the Eternal. He is to lay his hand on the head of the bull and slaughter the bull before the Eternal. The anointed priest is to take from the blood of the bull and bring it to the tent of meeting. The priest is to dip his finger in the blood and splash from the blood seven times before the Eternal, in front of the veil of the sanctuary. The priest is to put from the blood onto the horns of the altar of spicy incense which is in the tent of meeting, before the Eternal. And he is to pour all the blood of the bull at the foundation of the ascension altar which is by the entrance of the tent of meeting. And he is to raise all the fat of the bull of the sin-offering from it: the fat that covers the innards and all the fat that is on the innards. The two kidneys and the fat which is on them, on the flanks, and the gland that is over the liver above the kidneys, he is to remove - just as the peace-sacrifice was raised from the ox. The priest will incinerate them on the ascension altar. He will take the entire bull - the skin of the bull and all its meat, with its head and with its legs, its innards and its excrement - outside the camp to a pure place, to the ash dump, and burn it on wood in fire. It is to be burnt on the ash dump. - Leviticus 4:2-12